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THE ULTIMATE FOUNDATION OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE

LUDWIG VON MISES

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The subtitle is: An essay on Method; D. van Nostrand co, Princeton, 1962, 158 pgs., index, notes

 
 

Reviewer comment:
The author states his purpose in the Preface. He does not consider this a 'contribution to philosophy." It is an argument opposing 'positivism' and insisting that deductive reasoning to formulate theory is the proper basis for a 'scientific' approach. He writes: "Thhis essay proposes to sress the fact that there is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything".

 

 

Some Preliminary Observations Concerning Praxeology Instead of an Introduction

 
 

Chapter 1 - The Human Mind

 

 

Chapter 2 - The Activist Basis of Knowledge

 
 

Chapter 3 - Necessity and Volution

 
 

Chapter 4 - Certainty and Uncertainty

 
 

Chapter 5 - On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics

 
 

Chapter 6 - Further Implictions of the Neglect of Economic Thinking

 
 

Chapter 7 - The Epistemological Roots of Monism

 
 

Chapter 8 - Positivism and the Crisis of Western Civilization

 

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